AMARIN/E 303 



and three times as far from side as base; apex barely two-thirds 

 as wide as the base, deeply sinuate, with very prominent though 

 more or less bluntly pointed angles; impressions very feeble, the 

 stria fine; fovese almost completely obsolete, excepting the short 

 incised line of the inner; elytra about equal in width to the pro- 

 thorax, gradually ogival behind the middle; lateral series remotely 

 spaced medially but not sharply interrupted; striae fine, sometimes 

 irregularly comminuted, with the seventh subobliterated, a little 

 coarser on the declivity, the scutellar moderate or long, fine; inter- 

 vals almost flat; anterior tarsi of the male moderately dilated. 

 Length (cf 9 ) 7.0-7.8 mm.; width 3.0-3.35 mm. North Carolina 

 (Southern Pines) to Illinois, Iowa (Keokuk) and Missouri (St. 



Louis) cupreolata Putz. 



17 Basal thoracic angles rounded 18 



Basal angles right, not rounded 19 



1 8 Form oblong-suboval, moderately convex, deep black, the upper 

 surface with rather bright bronze lustre; head about half as wide as 

 the prothorax; eyes moderately prominent, the strioles short, broadly 

 impressed; antennae slender, extending nearly to the thoracic base, 

 black, with the first joint dark rufous, the second piceous; prothorax 

 slightly over one-half wider than long, the sides very evenly and mod- 

 erately arcuate, becoming nearly parallel basally; apex nearly three- 

 fourths as wide as the base, distinctly and evenly sinuate, the angles 

 blunt at tip; impressions subobsolete, the stria not coarse but im- 

 pressed and very distinct; inner fovea marked by a short incised 

 line, the outer a small rounded feeble impression, remote from both 

 side and base; posterior puncture at the basal margin, twice its 

 diameter from the side; elytra scarcely distinctly wider than the 

 prothorax, nearly one-half longer than wide, very gradually rounded 

 from the middle; surface (9) somewhat shining though distinctly 

 micro-reticulate; striae very fine, especially toward the sides, where 

 they are minutely subcomminuted, but little coarser on the de- 

 clivity, the scutellar moderate, oblique; intervals flat. Length (9 ) 

 7.0 mm.; width 3.0 mm. North Carolina (Southern Pines), 



Manee rustica n. sp. 



Form more narrowly oblong-suboval, convex, shining, the elytra but 

 little less so in the female; color deep black throughout the upper 

 surface, -without trace of metallic lustre; head well developed, evi- 

 dently more than half as wide as the prothorax, the eyes moderately 

 prominent, the strioles extremely small and fine; antennae extending 

 about to the thoracic base, black, the basal joint rufous, clouded 

 with piceous above, the second piceous; rjrothorax fully one-half 

 wider than long, the sides broadly, not evenly, arcuate, more so an- 

 teriorly, subparallel and less so in about basal half; basal angles 

 right but well rounded; sides of the base broadly sinuate; posterior 

 puncture coarse and deep, twice as far from side as from base; apex 

 barely two-thirds as wide as the base, deeply sinuate, the angles 

 bluntly rounded at tip; impressions obsolete, the stria feebly im- 

 pressed, distinct; inner fovea broadly, feebly impressed, with a short 

 anterior incised line, the outer small, rounded, subobsolete; elytra 



